Name: Festes de Sant Sebastià, Palma
Start: 2027-01-20
End: 2027-01-20
Location: Plaça Major & squares across Palma old town

Festes de Sant Sebastià, Palma

Plaça Major & squares across Palma old town

Every mid-January, Palma throws itself into honouring its patron, Sant Sebastià, in the biggest street party of the Mallorcan winter. The signature night is La Revetla on the eve of the feast, 19 January, when practically every square in the old town becomes a free open-air concert venue and the air smells of sobrassada grilling over the flames. The devotion traces back to the 1520s, when the arrival in Palma of a relic of Saint Sebastian was credited with ending the plague then ravaging Mallorca. Programme: On the Revetla of 19 January, squares including Plaça Major, Plaça de Cort, Plaça d'Espanya and Plaça de Joan Carles I simultaneously host free concerts that run into the early hours. Bonfires (foguerons) are lit and communal grills (torradores) are set up so crowds can toast sobrassada, botifarró and other local fare over the coals. The fiesta also brings the correfoc — fire beasts and drummers sweeping through the streets behind the awakening of the Drac de na Coca, Palma's crocodile-like dragon — plus xeremiers (Balearic bagpipers), gegants and capgrossos parading through the centre. The feast day itself, 20 January, and the days around it round out weeks of events across the city. Good to know: The core concerts, bonfires and parades are free and open-air — no ticket needed, just turn up. The big night is the Revetla on 19 January, and the patron's feast day falls on 20 January. Concerts in the squares run well past midnight, so pace yourself. As a deep-winter fiesta held outdoors, it calls for warm layers — you'll be out in the squares late into a cold Palma night.

WHAT HAPPENS

The shape of it

La Revetla: every plaça a free stage

On the eve of the feast, 19 January, Palma's central squares — Plaça Major, Plaça de Cort, Plaça d'Espanya and Plaça de Joan Carles I — each become an open-air concert stage, with simultaneous free line-ups running late into the night.

Foguerons and torradores

Bonfires (foguerons) are lit across the squares and communal grills (torradores) are set up so crowds can toast sobrassada, botifarró and other local fare over the flames — the smell of grilling is the signature of Revetla night.

Correfoc and the Drac de na Coca

Fire beasts and drummers take over the old town for the traditional correfoc fire-runs, led by the awakening of the Drac de na Coca, Palma's crocodile-like dragon rooted in a 17th-century legend.

Xeremiers, giants and a plague-era origin

Xeremiers (Balearic bagpipers), gegants and capgrossos (giants and big-heads) parade through the streets. The devotion traces to the 1520s, when a relic of Saint Sebastian arriving in Palma was credited with ending the plague then ravaging Mallorca.

FROM THE FLOOR

What you're walking into

SCHEDULE

When to go

20 January

GOOD TO KNOW

Before you go

The core Revetla concerts, bonfires and street parades are free and open-air — no ticket needed, just turn up.

The big night is the Revetla on the eve, 19 January; the feast day of Sant Sebastià, Palma's patron, falls on 20 January, with events spread across the surrounding weeks of January.

Square concerts run well past midnight into the early hours, so pace yourself — the squares are busiest late in the evening.

This is a mid-January winter fiesta held outdoors, so wrap up warm — you'll be standing in the squares late into a cold Palma night.

GETTING THERE

Where it is

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Plaça Major & squares across Palma old town